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Dear AFGE Activist,

It's your job that your representative in the House can protect by co-sponsoring the CLEAN UP Act, a bill that will clean up the contracting out mess that the Bush Administration left behind. Last week, I wrote to you that AFGE’s fight to clean up the waste, fraud and abuse in federal contracting moved one big step closer to becoming reality when the CLEAN UP Act (S. 924), was introduced in the Senate by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD).  Now, the House version of the CLEAN UP Act, sponsored by Representative John Sarbanes (D, MD-3), is set to be introduced next week if enough lawmakers co-sponsor the bill. Just like the hundreds of AFGE members who contacted their senators, we now need you to contact your representative and ask them to co-sponsor this monumental piece of legislation.

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With the critical piece of legislation set to be considered in both chambers of Congress, we are closer than ever to reforming government and ensuring we can effectively deliver the services the American public demands and deserves. With your help, we can make a clean sweep of the A-76 process. Join Operation Clean Up. Please take a moment to send a fax to your representative today.

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Please take a moment to watch AFGE's video about the CLEAN UP Act : http://www.afge.org/index.cfm?fuse=content&contentID=1822

Thanks for all you do for working families.

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In solidarity, 

John Gage

National President

American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO

Subject: Co-sponsor the Clean Up Act

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

I am writing to urge you to become an original cosponsor of The Clean Up Act by contacting the office of Representative John Sarbanes (D-MD), the lawmaker who will be introducing this important legislation. The Clean Up Act would make the outsourcing and insourcing processes more fair to federal employees and more accountable to taxpayers. The recently passed FY09 Omnibus Appropriations Bill requires agencies to develop insourcing plans to bring in-house new work and contracted out work and suspend the use of the OMB Circular A-76 process. The Clean Up Act would build on these and other precedents and:

1) ensure that work that should be performed by federal employees is incrementally brought back in-house;
2) encourage agencies to assign new work to federal employees rather than through yet another sole-source or limited competition contract
3) require agencies to determine where there are or will be shortages of federal employees and develop plans to address these shortages; and
4) direct the Obama Administration to make drastic, long-overdue reforms to the OMB Circular A-76 process; and suspend the use of that process until all of the reforms discussed above have been substantially implemented across the federal government.

It's time to put an end to the waste, fraud and abuse in the contracting out process. I would appreciate a response to my request. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Sincerely,

[Your Name]